Framework for Implementing Digital Twin as an Industry 5.0 Concept to Increase the SME Performance

Compared to emerging countries, European companies must digitally transform their organization to be competitive. Industry 4.0 concepts have been developed to encourage this company’s transformation and ensure the improvement of their performance. Indeed, these concepts have been successfully implemented in large companies, but their deployment in SMEs has to be increased. Some of the barriers to this implementation can be solved with the addition of sustainability as proposed by the European commission through industry 5.0. This paper focuses on the development of a framework for implementing digital twin as an industry 5.0 concept in the SME efficient transformation. Digital twin is one of the industry 4.0 pillar that can be easily combined with sustainability to increase the company performance. This article presents the industry 5.0 methodology developed for the SME digital transformation, the intelligent system designed to support the company changes and to elaborate the digital twin that will facilitate the enterprise sustainable transformation. An example based on a carpentry manufacturing SME is exposed to validate the results of the concepts and tool that have been presented.